ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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Abstract
Government of India’s allocation for rural development programmes is ever increasing. For effective utilization of these resources, the Ministry of Rural Development has developed a multi-pronged accountability frame work for all its programmes with Financial Audit, Social Audit, Geo-tagging, IT based Direct Benefit Transfers, transaction based MIS, geo-tagging of assets, citizen centric mobile apps like Gram Samvad, Meri Sadak, Awaas, National Level Monitoring, annual Common Review Mission, creating a cadre of internal auditors, independent evaluation studies by academic institutes. These measures are not only helping the Ministry monitor these programmes better but has also enhanced downward accountability to the public. The paper describes this accountability framework, analyses it’s working and suggests ways to make this framework robust.
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